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The Martyrs of Gorkum (Dutch: Martelaren van Gorcum) were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious, who were hanged on 9 July 1572 in the town of Brielle by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th-century religious wars—specifically, the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which developed into the Eighty Years' War. (Full article...)

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See also: Nicholas Pieck, Netherlands; Veronica Giuliani; Martyr Saints of China; Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, Brazil